It demanded the Bengal government set up a provisional fund of Rs 3,500 crore to ensure workers have jobs and wages.
August 2, 2022The number of persondays in the State has however declined in 2021-22 FY with a fall of 5.3%. While 19.7 crore persondays were generated in 2021-22 financial year
June 2, 2022In another 'farmer centric' move, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to develop as many as 150 nurseries under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
April 20, 2022Sonia Gandhi raised the issue in Lok Sabha, claiming that the MGNREGS budget for the current year is 35 per cent less than that of 2020 even when unemployment is continuously rising in the country.
March 31, 2022Misgivings that the Centre might delay approval for the states’ labour budgets relating to the scheme are not wholly unfounded. A further withholding of funds is, therefore, likely. Many states are already facing huge arrears in payment to the job scheme workers primarily because of the Centre’s erratic release of funds.
March 28, 2022The unorganised sector that employs the majority of workers is floundering; the number of people seeking employment under MGNREGA has risen alarmingly, exhausting the entire budget for MGNREGA in 21 States in the first six months and forcing the Centre to run a negative balance of Rs.8,686 crores even after work could not be provided to 13 per cent households. Unemployment and inflation are soaring, reducing the earnings of the poor
January 13, 2022The activity saw enthusiastic involvement of villagers nationwide, the Ministry of Rural Development said.
November 10, 2021The MGNREGA was enacted in 2005 to guarantee at least 100 days of employment per year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do manual unskilled work.
September 3, 2021This is for the first time in the world that such a hi-tech technology is used to integrate a wide variety of thematic layers, multi-temporal high resolution earth observation data to analyse performance and position of previous work assets completed under various schemes and evaluate it through appropriate state authorities.
August 26, 2021The mortality of the olive ridleys along the Odisha coast is attributed mainly due to the trawling operations in the sea as incidental killing due to suffocation in fishing nets of trawlers or by injury inflicted by the propellers of the trawler, the experts' panel stated in its report.
March 17, 2021Seeking to provide employment to migrant workers, Adityanath had recently announced a plan to generate 1 crore jobs and asked officials to increase work avenues.
June 23, 2020Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi said as many as 12 crore people, as of March 31, 2020, have benefitted cumulatively from this scheme ever since its inception.
June 9, 2020Workers must be empowered and not robbed of their rights, argues Alok Ray.
May 26, 2020CM announces an ex-gratia of Rs 2.5 lakh for family members of deceased.
May 22, 2020A maximum of 42 roads will be built under the PM's flagship scheme in Deoria district, followed by Amroha with 35 new roads.
May 13, 2020Devoid of an alternative source of income, she said an increasingly large number of the rural poor are expected to demand work under MGNREGA.
April 1, 2020There was no innovative, expansionary vision on display as the hapless finance minister, grappling with revenue, debt, expenditure going out of kilter and jobs disappearing across the board, used eloquent and unwarranted optimism instead, projecting a 10 per cent growth.
February 2, 2020